Snowden Bashes Nunes: I Was More Careful With Gov't Secrets Than You Are
The GOP-led intel panel disregarded concerns about risk, unlike when he leaked classified info, the whistleblower said.
ANDREW KIRELL
02.02.18 11:23 AM ET
Edward Snowden spoke out this week against the process in which House Republicans sought to release a memo full of classified government information.
Jake Laperruque, a lawyer for the Project on Government Oversight, tweeted Thursday how House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA), who had once called Snowden a “traitor” for his 2013 leak of surveillance documents, was now acting recklessly with government disclosures.
“Journalists disclosing Snowden documents... would interact with the Intelligence Community prior to publication,” the surveillance expert explained. “They certainly didn’t oblige all their requests, but they made good-faith effort to hear concerns on why [the intelligence community] thought some stuff shouldn't be public.”
Snowden concurred, writing: “I required the journalists who broke the 2013 domestic spying stories (as a condition of access) to talk with gov in advance of publication as an extraordinary precaution to prevent any risk of harm. Turns out our standard of care was higher than the actual Intel committee.”
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